Machine for making shocks.



G. MARSHALL.

.MACHINE PoR MAKING SHOGKS.

APPLICATION FILED `APR. 3, 1911.

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G. MARSHALL.

MACHINE FOR MAKING SHOGKS. APPLIQATION FILED APB. s, y1911.

Patented Aug. 15, 19H.

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GEORGIE MARSHALL, 0F FREMONT, NEBRASKA.

MACHINE FOR MAKING SHOCKS.

.To all'whont y"it may concern:

Yof October 19, 1909 I have shown a machine for making shocks in which a wagon is provided with upright posts or standards so spaced as to receive a number of sheaves and hold them' While being bound. The wagon which travels abreast of the binder receives the sheaves as fast as formed on an elevalthereinaround a pulley mounted on the underside of the wagon -and then around a -windlass or drum mounted on a shaft which carries a sprocket wheel geared to one of the wagon wheels.v The sprocket wheel is able torevolve independently of theshaft which carries the drum, but the drum is rigidly attaehedto the shaft and said shaft 'carries a clutch member which revolves at all times with the shaft and which is adapted to engage a clutch member rigidly connected with the .sprocket wheel. Mechanism is provided for throwing the clutchmembers into and out of engagement with'each other, the operation being such that when these members are engaged and the wagon 'is traveling the drum is revolved and the compressing rope connected therewith is wound on the drum. A locking pawl `or detent is provided which holds the rope taut and by releasing this pawl the rope may be slacgkened. This compressing rope is adapted toextend around the sheaves or bundles and when drawn tight compresses the sheaves into a compact shock.

Another rope is provided on the Hoor of the wagon near the posts and when the sheaves are compressed by the compressing rope, the binding rope is drawn tight and tied securely. r1`he shock thus completed is turned into an upright position, cap

, sheaves are placed on it and the shock is moved onto trap doors in the bottom of the wagon at its rear end. These doors are normally held up by bolts, but when the Specification ofv Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

Application led April 3, 1911. Serial No. 618,625.

bolts are releasedthe trap doors drop and allow the shock to fall to the ground.

According to my present invention I provide a machine for making shocks of substantially the construction above described and shown in my patent of October 19, 1909 except that'in place of the trap doors shown in said patent, I provide-.improved means for lowering the shocks to the ground. I now provide a skeleton frame which is sus# pended at the rear end of the wagon from an arched frame by means of bloekfand- .tackle so thatthe shock-supporting frame can be lowered and raised when' desired. The weight of the shock-supporting. frame is counterbalanced by weights so that the frame will remain in any position to which it is raised or lowered and will not drop of its own weight, but when the shock-supporting frame is loaded with a shock the weight of the latter will cause the frame to descend when the rope is operated for this purpose.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1' shows a plan view of a machine for making shocks constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 shows a side elevation of the rear portion thereof partly in section. Fig. 3 is av rear elevation of the machine. Fig. 4C is a perspective view of the rear portion of the machine with parts Ibroken away in order to better show other parts, and this ligure of the drawing also shows how a shock is supported and lowered. ,Fig. 5 is a perspective View of the shock-supporting frame detached. Fig. G -is a perspective view of the braces to which the chains for dragging the shock-supporting frame are attached.

The wagon A lis of substantially the samel construction as that shownin my before mentioned patent and the sheaves as they come from the binder or from the elevatbr' wagon. The ro )e then asses around a ul ley (Z and is attached to awindlass or drum E on a shaft E carrying clutch mechanism E2 operated by-the lever mechanism E3 and the handle E4', all such mechanism being similar Ato that heretofore employed. The

clutch member c which is loose on the shaft 1C connected by a Sprocket gearing F to one of the hind wheels of the wagon. Detent mechanism G, similar to that heretofore employed, is operated by the handle G. When the rope D is made to surround a I'shock of sheaves and the clutch members are tion thereof is cut away between the sides H' thereof to form an opening in which is arranged the shock-supporting frame L comprising two parallel side bars Z, a frontcross-bar Z and a bottom cross-bar Z2 intermediate the front and rear ends of the side bars. On this cross-bar Z2 are supported parallel rods Z3 which are attached to the front cross-bar Z and are also Vfastenedat Z4 t0 the cross-bar Z2. The'shock-supporting frame L is suspended from a U-shaped frame M attached to the sides of the wagon body by means of block-and-tackle N of any suitable construction. The rope n may have its free end attached to a cleat n on one of the sides y of the frame M and the block-andtackle is connected with a bail O attached to the shock-supporting frame by means of chains o. By means of the rop-e n the shock-supporting frame may be raised and lowered. In order to prevent the shock from falling backward from the shock-supporting frame out Iof the wagon, I provide a guard P attached to the sides of the wagon andeX- tending across the rear portion thereof from one side'of the wagon'to the other.

In order to counterbalance the weight of the shock-supporting frame I provide weights S connected to cords or chains s passing over pulleys S on the wagbn frame and attached to the sidebars of the shocksupporting frame. Preferably two,weights and cords or chains are applied to each side bar so that the front and vrear portions of the frame are counterbalanced.- -lVhen a shock is placed onthe frame L in the' manner shown i Fig. 4, the rope n' if detached from the c eat n and let out sc that the shock-supporting frame will be lowered in the manner indicated by dotted lines in F ig, 4, and then the shock is deposited on 'the ground and the wagon is driven away from it so as to leave 1t standing. After the shock has been thus withdrawn the rope n may befoperated to lift the trame L to its elevated position ready to receive another shock.

X, X indicate chains attached to the front end of the shock-supporting frame .aid eX- y tending under the wagon and connect ad to braces thereon. These braces may be oi any suitable construction. As shown .they consist of V-shaped downwardly extending brackets X', X2 attached to the bottom of vporting frame for raising and lowering the latter, and means for eounterbalancing the weight of the shock-supporting frame.

2. A machine for forming lshocks, comf prising a wagon body provided. with means for compressing sheaves to form a shock, and a vertically movablev shock-supporting'frame at the rear end of the wagon body provided with counterbalancing weights, a bail, -an arched frame rising from the wagon body above the shocksupporting frame, and block-and-tackle mechanism cairied by said archedframe and connected with the bail of the shock-supporting frame for 4raising and lowering the latter.

In testimony whereof, I have -hereunto subscribed my name.

GEORGE MAnsHALL, Witnesses S. S. SIDNER, JEssIE MILLER. 

